«Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you, the past, to leave us alone. You have no power where we gather. We will create a civilization of Mind in Cyberspace. Let it be more humane and just than the world that your governments have created before»

John Perry Barlow (Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, Davos, Switzerland, February 8, 1996)